Richard Eiler advises healthcare clients on a wide variety of operational, compliance, and transactional matters that impact their business. He works with a range of the firm’s healthcare clients, including hospitals and health systems, physician practices, management service platforms, managed care organizations, and other healthcare companies.
Clients rely on Richard to understand complex healthcare regulatory laws and navigate the transition to value-based care in the context of transactions and day-to-day operations. His practice involves:
- Alternative Payment Models & Accountable Care – With a depth of experience regarding alternative payment models, Richard advises clients regarding establishing, participation in, and operational issues involving federal and commercial alternative payment models, including accountable care organizations, bundled payment and service delivery models, and a variety of other models being tested by CMS.
- Managed Care – Advising clients regarding federal healthcare program and commercial payor arrangements, including those related to delegation and downstream contracting, population health and care management, fraud and abuse compliance, and licensure.
- Regulatory & Operational – Counseling clients with respect to complex regulatory matters, including healthcare fraud and abuse and compliance issues related to the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute and similar state laws, the corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, and licensure issues.
- Contracting – Assisting clients in structuring, drafting, and negotiating contracts, including for healthcare providers and suppliers, accountable care organizations and value-based enterprises, and management service platforms.
- Healthcare Transactions – Analyzing buy-side and sell-side deals for compliance with healthcare laws and potential operational impact, including with respect to mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures involving alternative payment models and accountable care organizations.